July 23, 1999
The Disappearing Art of Reviewing Books
One often hears writers lamenting the state of book reviewing. "Not since the death of Edmund Wilson," they say, "has there been a consistently intelligent reviewer." (I've heard that countless times, as if Wilson's work were a kind of lost Arcadia in the cultural universe. In reality, he did not especially devote himself to reviewing.) Nonetheless, book reviewing is at a low ebb, although the issue is rarely
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